Earthworks and ruins at Old Bolingbroke, west of Spilsby, are all that remain of thirteenth-century Bolingbroke Castle, believed in the seventeenth century to be haunted by an animal ghost. Gervase Holles, in
Shilbottle: Blue Cap, Cutty Soams and the Haunted Mines of Northumberland Beneath the coalfields of northern England, folklore developed in an environment where the supernatural and the brutally practical were never very far apart. A miner descending underground entered a
In his Household Tales (1895), S. O. Addy writes: The ghost of one of the Brights of Whirlow Hall, near Sheffield, was said to appear in a lane near the house in
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, in his History … of Darlington (1854), says that his former residence at Thirsk had a White Lady attached to a nearby stream. This stream indeed took its
The ghost who cannot rest until his or her hidden treasure has been found is a theme of a number of international folktales. Not always, however, do things turn out so badly
Flamborough Flamborough, on the dramatic East Yorkshire coast, is a place of chalk cliffs, sea caves, old wells and deep hollows where local folklore once placed fairies, ghosts and other beings that
William Henderson, in his Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties (1866), writes: The village of Calverley, near Bradford … has been haunted since the time of Queen Elizabeth by the
According to tradition, the Jacobean mansion of Burton Agnes Hall in the East Riding was built by the three Griffiths sisters in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). At the time,
In the third volume of his History … of Durham (1823), Robert Surtees tells ‘an old story’ also recorded by others concerning the history of the manor of Bulmer. This was given
Beverley, like most ancient cities, has its ghosts. One of the best-known apparitions was ‘Sir Josceline Percy’s Team’. William Henderson wrote in 1879: The headless ghost of Sir Josceline Percy drives four
Amy Robsart’s death at Cumnor Place in 1560 was a notorious scandal in an age of scandals. Born in Norfolk, the daughter of Sir John Robsart of Syderstone, she subsequently moved with
There are several prehistoric round barrows on Inkpen Hill, which are supposed to contain buried treasure, including a coffin made either of solid gold or of silver. One particular barrow, on Saddler’s
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